did you see the moon last night

It was waning...not full by any means.  I think that is it's natural state...full only is once a month.  Moonlight is reflected from the sun. We all know that. Because it is a "mirror" of sorts of something bigger and far more powerful, it is a caricature.  No one was every sunburn from the moon.

We think of it as violent  - the sun that is - and something that can do great damage to us, our skin, radio - and ultimately us when it goes into a super nova sometime after I and anyone who is reading this dies of old old age.  The moon, our companion, our nightly friend, will be here with us to the end.